The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-31 00:00:00

WRECK OF THE ~ KILLARNEY." Before giving the fallowing additional particulars relative to the calamitous wreck of the Killarney steamer, it is mere justice to state that the charges made against the country people have been contradicted by Mr. Conway, agent to the Steam Packet Company. The statement that the vessel had " an over quantity of pigs on board" has also been formally contradicted. We now proceed to give an abridgment of the report furnished by the Cork Constitution of Saturday : The particulars connected with the loss of this vessel, differ somewhat from the accounts which we have already furnished, We regret to say, that the calamity has been greater than was at first imagined, and that instead of twenty-four no less than twenty-nine persons have lost their lives. She left the quay on Friday morning at half-past nine o'clock, the wind blowing hard from the south-east. She had onboard seven cabin and thirteen deck passengers, with Captain, mate, crew, engineers, firemen, steward, stewardess, and cabin-boy, amounting to 22 persons. After they passed the light-house, it was blowing, what sailors term "half a gale ;" the vessel, from the number of pigs on board, dipped rather much, and having shipped some seas, the passengers became alarmed, and, with the crew, requested the Captain to put back. With this the Captain complied, and when they had nearly reached Poor Head, he put about and returned to Cove. It was just eight o'clock when the vessel was quitting the harbour. She stood for Ballycotton, the wind increasing every moment until it blew a full gale, and the vessel going very slowly. This continued until midnight, the vessel rolling dreadfully, the pigs bearing her down to leeward, and every wave that struck her causing her to dip so deeply that she shipped several seas. A great quantity of water poured down into the forehold, the hatches having been left open, as there were about 300 pigs in it. There were about 350 pigs on deck, and ii order to lighten the vessel the Captain directed all hands to exert themselves to throw them overboard. Exert themselves they did, till four o'clock in the morning ; but overboard it was impossible to get the pigs—in the language of one on board, " they clung to the vessel as if they were destined to be her destruction," and she leaned so much, that the sailors were unable to attack them with effect. One man, however, contrived to seize two of them in his arms,, and throw them over the side. lip to four o'clock ota Saturday morning, they managed, by means of the air or engine pumps, to work the hold tolerably cleat of the water that was shipped, but at that hour somO small coal got into the pumps and choked them. The water then rose rapidly until, reaching the level of the fire, it rushed in and extinguished it. The engines no longer moved, and all was given up for lost. Even the stout heart of some of the sailors failed them—they seemed completelil, paralysed. Many of them, however, held out, nod all thail man could do the Captain did to encourage and to help the ' The scene in the cabin was not without its interest. Wit i m one exception, all was silcoce—we might say, despair. Bu one voice was to be heard—and that the voice of a woman The passengers had quitted their beds. They were congregate in the ladies' cabin, and there, amid the terrors of the stor , and the roarings of art ocean that threatened every instant t engulph them, a lady's vo i ce ascended to heaven for mercy That lady was M r s. Lawe. Nothing could exceed the mag • nanimity of this lam ente d woman . Sh e e ndeavoured to cher.: her companions i n m i s f ortune , an d some o f the sailors wb went down to the cabin she exhorted not to be daunted, but tq put their trust in God, who could protect them on the sea as well as the shore. During the whole time that she was en gaged in prayer (the passengers:deck and cabin, assembled around her) she held one of her husband's hands clasped in her's, and this she eontinned until, the vessel having neared the tatal rock, the steward ran down, and called to them to go on deck—that they were all lost ! While matters proceeded thus in the cabin, the sailors and some of the deck passengers were engaged in endeavouring with buckets to lighten the vessel of some of th 7 water in the hold, and after several hours' hard work they had so far suc ceeded as to be able about 12 o'clock on Saturday to get the steam partly up again. They were at this time utterly igno rant of where they were, or whither they were going, for the hi , ' was so den s e th a t no o bj ect was v i s ibl e ; t h ey en d eavoure d to keep the vessel's head to the wind, but after some time they found that they were going to leewerd. The jib-sail was then set, in order to keep her steady, but no sooner was it run out than it was blown into ribboas. About three o'clock the fog cleared away, and they saw land behind them, but what land it eel they could not tell; one -took it for Pi nor Head— another for Roche's Tower, and the Captain, we believe, for Kinsale Head. It was then blowing a complete hurricane ; the coast was covered with rocks, and they saw that if they drifted towards it destruction was inevitable. By the Cap tain's orders the mainsail was set, and the engine-men were directed to do their utmost to . get up the steam in order to keep her off. The steam unfortunately was so weak as to be of no assistance—it scarcely moved the crank ; and the sail had to be hauled-down lest it should throw her on her beam ends. 'I he stay-sail was then tried in the hope that it would enable them to round the Point, but they could not haul it cut. Mr. Foster then pointed out a Bay, which he said was Roberts' Cove, and recommeneld the Captain to run the vi s sel in there, as there was a boat harbour in it, and beach her. The Captain said he did riot think there was a her Lour there, " bat all events it would be imeosaible to make it. The vessel w..s all this time drifting nearer the rock on which atte ulti. mately struck, anal in about an hour after Mr. Foster had given the recoannendation alluded to, the Captain got the vess=l round and endeavoured to make for Roberts' Cove. Just as he had got her before the wind, ho:vev,r; she was . I , o epc dby a tremendous sea, w Lich carried away the taffrail, taffrail-rail, the wheel, End the two men who worked it (John Price tied James Artfell) the companion, the binnacle, and th • breakwater. Price and Artfell fornratcly caught part of the riming and were saved, but the sea which did the damage cirri, d away the bulwarks, tlith some of the steerege passen gers who were standing near the funnel, and cleared the deck of all the pigs that were on it. I: was whoa the vessel was near the rock, and before she put abort, that the stewa:d went clown to cell the cabin pa-- sengars on duck, and they were on their way up when the sea pissed over the vessel. A second sea succeeded almost im mediately, and scarcely had Mr. Lawe and Mr. Nicolai steaped on the quarter deck when they were hurried over board. Mr. Lawe was taken iu the " break" of the sea. and dashed, his head downward, against the paddle-fox, by which it is supposed his brains must have been beaten cut ; Mr. Nicelai was taken up, whirled round several times as if in a whirlpool, and swept away. The se two seas had the effect of bringing her bead somewhat to a indward again, when a third pea rapidly succeeded and drove her en the rock. It was C.eti between four and five o'clock. The first stroke she gave, the carpenter (James M,.son) jumped on it, as did also a deck pas , stinger, but the 1 indieg place was se narrow that there was not room for both, and the latter fell into the eater and w• s drowned. After striking, the vessel receded ; she soon struck ag in, and continued recet;ing and striking for some time, during whi, 1: s nne of the sailors, the first irate ( G. Rcse), and the Cap taM larded. When the latter got on the rock, a rope was thrown to Lim an to the mate. i hat they might endeavour to keep the ves sel to the rock. Most—we believe all=of the sailors and some of the pa:sengers were saved in this way, only one landing at a trre. The steward (Michael Sheehan, a native of Cork) rerambled along the ve,sel to look for Mrs. ,awe. He found h. ron the deck near the funnel, calm and collected. Hs brought her to the quarter.gallery (the part of the vessel at that moment striking), and, looslog' the rope, he handed it to her and directed her to bold it, and, when the vessel next struck, to leap into the sea and they would drag her to the rock. She did so, and was drawn up part of the rock, but having let go the rope, and the wave returning immediately, she was carried away when it receded, and never seen again. Sheehan leaped almost at the same moment with Mrs. Lawe. and was saved. The last persons that left the vessel were a sailor . ar:d a women—the latt e r su pp ose d to h e t h e stewar d ess. She appeared to be senseless, and the sailor, who seemed to have brought her front the cabin, had her in his arms. He leaped from the vessel, and reached the rock, the woman un der one arm. hut the footing was narrow, and the rock was shelving. He had roam for little more than his toes, and was obliged to endeavour to hold one with the fingers of one hand, but the weight of the woman inclining him backwards, they were carried off in the same manner as Mrs. Lawe. Had not the sailor endeavoured to save the stewardess, the poor fellow might unquestionably have saved himself. As soon as Sheehan loosed the rope to give it to Mrs. Lawe, the vessel, having nothing to confine her, swung round, and the next sea that struck her drove her against the rock : her deck opened, she divided in two, fore and aft, and all t' at had been unable to quit her in order to reach the rock perished. In an hour after, with the exception of the engine and the paddle-wheel, not a vestige of the vessel or of her machinery was visible. There were about 25 persons oe the rock. The sailors had contrived to clamber to the sheltered side, but the situation of the passengers was pitiable in the extreme. Mr. Foster, who had on but a shirt and waistcoat, was seated astride on a projection of the rock, his face towards the sea. Under him was Mr. Collis, his back to the sea, his toes resting on a narrow ledge, and his fingers clinging in a crevice. Along side the latter, was the engineer, Nl'Carthur; next to whom, side by side, were Dr. Spolasco, Mary Leary, and Sheehan, the latter lying on his face and hands, and every sea washing over him. Over them, were the steward's brother (Ward), the Captain, the Mate, a boy in care of pigs for the Messrs. Adams, and the cabin-boy. The persons on the side next the land ob serving some ;country people—about eighteen or twenty— they shouted to them, hoping to attract their attention, but there was no answer. The probability is that the shout never reached the land, but they saw the people subsequently de scend and carry off some of the pigs that had been washed ashore. Night then came on. About I I o'clock the wind rose and blew terrifically, but amid the raging of the storm a startling shriek was heard. Poor young Foster had lost his hold, and tumbling headlong immediately past his friend, Mr. Collis, his neck was heard to crack on the hard rock, and he tumbled into the sea I He was not the first, however, that fell. The engineer, M‘Carthur, some time previously had called to his companions that he was unable to hold on any longer. He put his hands into his pockets in order to warm them, but just as he did so, a sea washed him from his slender footing. As he passed he made a grasp at Dr. Spolasco. Had he caught him both must have perished, but he only touched him. He contrived to catch part of the rock, however, about twenty feet lower down, by which he held on for some time, every sea washing over him, and eventually succeeded in regaining the position he had lost. Soon after Mr. Foster fell, Ward, who 11" , t om d i rov , • asleep, was heard to fa ll—then fol lowed_ ' boy—and then, towards morning, the ' Arb .. n b t;; Ti t t e k l ap A r .l`ge4 to , ‘ c" 4 „ V l lsls44 eSdd / 1 ' r astr•••l4,.iviefre Yie>an T i e xeCtltial) - s"( 11 with some difficulty clambered sheltered side. Some of the on the cliff and resumed the followed by a number of the ladies, and then were put into tr deliverance which we have al- lk,l 13. ready described, and which it would be unnecessary to repeat here. In the course of the day, worn out by hunger and fatigue, M'Carthur the engineer, and Jephson the black cook. died. Here the survivors had to remain until Monday. Their sufferings it would be impossible to describe, and their agony, when they saw the attempt to rescue them on Sunday abandoned—when darkness settled down upon the deep, and they could no longer distinguish the figures of the persons on the cliff above them, it would not be easy to imagine. Their sole sustenance during the two te dious days and nights that they were doomed to this dismal destiny, was a little salt water and the few scraps of sea-weed that they could gather from one of the bleakest and most barren rocks on the coast. The number rescued from the rock was fourteen, one of whom (the carpenter) died soon after ; two others were lost from the breaking of the rope, and one (a sailor) was drowned in the attempt to swim ashore. We omitted to mention the death of Dr. Spolasco's son ; he was the first that fell from the rock. When landed they seemed all in a state of collapse. The respiration was perfect, but all their feet were swollen, and the circulation was scarcely perceptible. Mr. Hull, who suggested the plan by means of which their lives were saved, is, we regret to state, very unwell in conse quence of his exertions at the wreck, climbing the cliffs, throwing slings, &c., on Sunday ; he is confined to his bed. Many distinguished themselves by their humanity and acti vity on the same occasion. We fear there has been another wreck off the coast, but we have no further information than that conveyed in the follow ing letter addressed to Sir William Daniels:— " Crosshaven, Jan. 24, 1838. " Sir—l beg leave to inform you (through Mr. Hull's in telligence) that hg has picked up the stern-board of a boat marked ' Ring, Burke, and Barry,' and that the boat is in pos session of some people there, and that several shoes were found in her.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " HENRY RICH GLYNN, Lt. R.N. " Captain Sir W. Daniels, &c. &c., Core. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ..—.... 39 ifainutes after 6 1 Evening 6 minutes after 7 ANTI-SPOTTISWOODE SUBSCRIPTION Subscriptions to defeat the purpose of the Spottiswoode Confederacy continue to be received at— Messrs. COCKS and BIDDULPHS, 4.1, Charing-cross. Messrs. BOUVERIE and Co., 11, Haymarket. Messrs. PRESCOTT, GROTE and Co., 62, Threadneedle-street. Messrs. LADBROKE, KINGSCOTE and Co., Bank-buildings. J. E. HOVENDEN, Chairman of Corn mittee of Managment. British Coffee-house, Jan, 29. This day, price Is. 6d., with a Preface, TA O R D BROUGHAM'S SPEECH on CANADA. James Ridgway and Sons, Piccadilly. Also, Is. each, . LORD BROUGHAM on tile BUSINESS ofPARLIANIENT I. On IMPRISONMENT for DEBT. On the CIVIL LIST. The publication ti Tun SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 31) minutes past Three o' Clock. LONDON: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1833 The public have had many proofs of that suspicion and dislike which the faction, arrogating to itself the title of " Conservative," entertain towards the youthful and amiable Sovereign who fills the throne of these l i realms, and her Royal Parent. ,The Duchess of KENT,, by educating the QUEEN in constitutional principles, and thus laying the foundation of her glory in the liberty and happiness of her subjects, may be said, to have deserved the hatred of a party, whose constant aim it has been to curtail the liberties, and destroy the happiness of the people, and who now feel that, their career is checked. The reason, therefore, why the has, been made the object of the ' brutal attacks of the Tory press, is obvious enough. But what short of the most gratuitous and fiendish malign ity can prompt this base and un-English faction to point their slanderous shafts against the heart of a Sovereign, whose youth and innocence alone, had she no other claims on their regard, ought to be a wall of defence around her ! These remarks have been suggested by an article in the Times of this morning, in which the frequency of Lord MELBOURNE'S visits to the Palace is com mented upon in a strain worthy of that Journal. That her MAJESTY's Ministers should he in high favour at Court is a circumstance not calculated, we can well believe, to give much satisfaction to the Times and its clique, especially as the cxclu.;ion of the same Ministers from all social intercourse with the late KING was so often charged upon them by the same parties as a high crime and misdemeanour. But surely it .were enough to gratify rancour if the vials of wrath were poured upon the heads of the guilty ser vants, and their Royal Mistress allowed to escape the foulness of the calumnies in which the or gans of the party delight to deal. The writer to whom we hare alluded, in drawing a contrast be tween the two Queens, ELIZABETH and VICTORIA, uses the following expressions :—" She (Elizabeth) hadtoo much self-respect and cherished too zvi.s.ely the respect of others, to degrade Lord Bur leigh into a Groom of the Chambers, or subject him to be spoken of—could suck a man have been so spoken of—as a mere dangler after thefrivnlous cour tesies of the drawing-room or budoir. It is enough . fir the Queen of England to sec her official servants in the Council-chamber or hall of audience : her Ma jesty should there alone listen to them." Here is a fine specimen of that chivalrous loyalty which is so often claimed as the exclusive attribute of Toryism ! Here the Queen of ENGLAND, whom this organ of party virulence, no longer ago than yesterday, besmeared with the most fawning and ful some flattery, is broadly accused of having no respect for herself, and no regard to the respect of others. The assassin, before he gives the stab, smiles in the face of his victim. One would have thought that the angry passions excited in this country, by the undue preference given to a particular religion, Would have made even the High Church party doubt whether they should be ex tended to the Colonies. Some men, however, will never learn wisdom from experience, and Sir ROBERT ID/GUI is now the conspicuous leader of that class. He regrets that in all the treaties with the French Canadians a preference was given to their religion, and thinks the time is arrived when, by the union of all the British possessions in North America, the Le gislature ought to make the Protestant religion promi nent—in other words, the established religion of the country. So that, to the various questions for angry discussion arising out of the unsettled state of Canada, he would add another—and one, too, which, in every country, has been found the most difficult to settle or compromise. With an unreformed House of Com mons, and the party of the true Eldon school in power, such a plan possibly would have been carried. Their idea of High Church Supremacy obliterates every glimmering of common sense, when this topic is brought under discussion. They close their eyes to the fact that the great majority of Lower Canada are Catholics— that the great majority of Upper Canada are Catholics or Presbyterians—and that, taking in all the five pro vinces, the members of the Episcopal English Church would form an inconsiderable minority. It would be edifying to hear the Member for Dublin, if Sir ROBERT INGLis'would make a motion on the subject. Our attention has been directed to a very clever pamphlet by Mr. CHARLES CLARK, a Barrister, en-. titled a " Few More Words upon Canada," in which the question of the dispute between the Colony and the Mother-country is very fairly and impartially HE SIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1838. stated. The drift of the pamphlet is to show tha since 1828 the British Government has gone on steadily in the course pointed out in the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons of that year—a Report which M. PAPINEAU and his friends in the Lower Province lauded as an imperishable monument of British wisdom and justice. As evidence of this fact the author quotes the Report of the Select Committee of 1834—0 f which Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. WARBURTON, and Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH were members—which says :—" Your Committee consider it their duty to declare their opinion, that a most earnest anxiety has existed on the part of the Home Government to carry into execution the suggestions of the Select Committee of 1828, and that the endeavours of the Government to that end have been unremitting, and guided by the desire, in all cases, to promote the interests of the Colony, and your Committee have observed with much satisfaction, that in several important particulars their efforts have been completely successful." Every impartial inquirer into the real merits of the Canadian insurrection must ar rive at this conclusion :—that whereas, from the year 1806 up to 1828, the Canadians had justice on their side—the concessions made by the Government since that period, and the pledges given by Parliament of a redress of grievances, have wholly changed the relation in which the Colony previously stood to the Mother country. The Canadians from being the aggrieved have become the aggressors ; and England, instead of being the oppressor, has been wantonly insulted by a violent faction, who, under the plea of obtaining a re dress of grievances, aim at the overthrow of her domi nion in every part of North America. PAPINEAU wants to become the President of a new republic ; and were he restored to the Speakership of the House of Assembly, nothing would ever satisfy him short of a separation from the regal sway of Great Britain. But let it not be inferred from this that we acquit the Mi nisters of all blame respecting the rise of the rebellion. Quite the reverse. Had the Cabinet only possessed the most ordinary share of political sagacity—had a sufficient military force been sent over in April last when the coercive resolutions were passed—not a single outrage would have occurred—not a drop of blood would have been shed in either of the Provinces. PAPINEAU would have remained quiet, and the ene mies of England would not be afforded the insulting triumph of witnessing the rising of several thousands of British subjects to dispute the authority of the parent state. The blundering of Ministers, and their timid apprehension of the risk of carrying out their own measures, favoured the long fostered designs of PAPINEAU and his accomplices ; so that to the extent that imbecility entails guilt, is the Cabinet responsible for the crimes committed in Canada. PAPINEAU and his faction are guilty of having premeditated and orga nized a revolt—of having renounced their allegiance, and shed the blood of their fellow citizens ; whereas the guilt of Ministers extends only to their having pro voked hostilities by a series of despotic and unjust re solutions, without having the foresight to provide against the possibility of armed resistance. Besides Mr. CLARK'S pamphlet, we have received several others on the same subject. Among those most worthy of attention are :—" Canada at the Close of 1837," " Emancipate your Colonies, from an unpub lished manuscript of JEREMY BENTHAM ;" and the " Fifth Number of the Canadian Portfolio," by Mr. ROEBUCK. But as, with the passing of the Canada Bill, the interest attached to most of these tracts will die away, it is now too late to occupy our columns with a more extended notice of them. The Reform Bill is_no longer the popular idol it was in 1832. Every succeeding day only serves to discover some new blemish or blunder in it—some additional proof of its unsuitableness to the wants of the people. We verily believe that one-third of the Liberals who most strenuously supported its adop tion—vdio compelled the Lords to accept it—arc now heal Lily sick of it. Do they therefore seek the revival of the rotten borough system ? By no means. They hate corruption ; they detest the domination of the aristocracy, and are as firmly resolved to resist t as ever they were. But they are persuaded—experience, they allege, has taught them—that the people of Eng land can never be fairly represented in Parliament till a Knowledge Qualification he substituted for the pro perty qualification which now confers the right to exercise the elective franchise. As they have deve loped their views in pamphlets and essays, and as these views are very creditable to tlieir moderation and talents, we shall, from time to time, seize such oppor tunities as to us shall seem most appropriate for sub mitting them to the judgment of our readers. We some weeks since commented upon a pamphlet, pub hshed by Mr. ADAM, Editor of the Aberdeen Herald, on the Knowledge Qualification— a qualification which was more recently defended in the House of Peers by Lord BROUGHAM, in his masterly speech upon his own National Education Bill ; and we have now to direct attention to a still more striking essay on the same subject, published by EFFINGHAM WILSON, and entitled " An Appeal to the moral and intellectual classes in favour of an immediate Repeal of the Re. form Bill, and an entire reconstruction of the system of Representation." The author, who represents himself as a Member of Parliament of some years standing, enumerates what lie styles the " Seven deadly Sins of the Reform Bill," and undertakes to show that our present system of representation is not only defective, but radically vicious. Without sub scribing to all his opinions, we candidly admit that those who are least under the influence of ignorant prejudices are the most likely to be influenced by hi s reasoning. We shall first briefly enumerate his list of the defects of the Reform Bill, and subsequently de velope his plan for a reconstruction of the Representa tive System. In so doing, we beg distinctly and emphatically to be understood as giving expression to the sentiments of the Member of the House of Com mons, whose pamphlet is before us. The " Seven deadly Sins of the Reform Bill" then are : I . Want of comprehensiveness. Its object was to snb stituto actual ror pretended virtual representation ; whereas so restricted is the franchise, that in a population exceeding twenty-five millions of persons the electoral body scarcely ex ceeds half a million—or one in fifty I 2. Want of comprehensiveness in the habitable surface of the country within its operation by the establishment of ar bitrary and often ridiculous boundary lines, as in the outskirts of cities end boroughs. 3. The establishment of a property qualification, defec tive, because those is no affinity between rental and a discharge of the duty of an elector ; because such a standard of qualifica tion is liable to constant fluctuation; and because it offers temptation to perjury and _fraud on the part of the elector. 4. The trammels which it imposes upon the elector by the rate-paying, non-renioval, clauses. 5. The power of unlimited and !exatious objection, aoc c by . d. agents, which it admits in the Regis tration Courts, without any redress for the cost, trouble , and anno y ance, vexatiously 6. Want of a provision to securo the identity of electors, in consequence of which hundreds of persons absent or dead were represented by individuals who polled in their name at the last election. - ---------- 7. Its recognition of the practice of Election Petitions, so fertile in bribery, corruption, perjury,. and intimidation, after the elections are terminated—a practice which h e contends o ught to be absolutely and entirely abolished." So much for the defects of the present Represen tative System. Now for the remedy : In the first place, the author would change the standard of qualification, and following in the foot steps of BENTHAM—substitute for a m i n i mum amount of property or rental a minimum amount of intelligence. The being able to read and write, he contends, is a fairer test of such a qualification than the payment of any sum in house rent. The four re quisites for the qualification of a voter should be— 1. The attainment of full legal age. 2. The possession of a good moral cl aracter for sobriety and integrity. 3. The capacity to earn an independent subsistence. 4. The ability to read and write English." The first of these requisites would be supplied in most cases by the countenance—where doubtful, by a certificate of baptism, or the testimony of parents or neighbours ; the second, by the certificate of em ployers, magistrates, or persons the neighbour hood of acknowledged good character ; the third, by a reference to the Board of Guardians ; and the fourth, by ocular demonstration. To read intelligibly and write legibly would complete the proof of the eli gibility of the person claiming to vote, and his auto graph entered into a book, at the foot of the entry of his qualification, would serve to identify - him at every succeeding election. All persons living within five statute miles of any City or Borough represented in Parliament to vote for the Member or Members for such places, and all beyond that distance for the county. By this division of the electors, the clashing of com mercial and agricultural interests would be avoided. The elections should be fixed at triennial periods, determined by law, and not by the caprice of Monarch or Minister. This would lead to the establishment of a triennial instead of an annual revision" of the . re gistry. By this regulation, an immense saving would be effected to the country. We now come to the mode of conducting the election itself, which we shall give in the words of the author : " The triennial period fixed by law for the renewal of the electors being known to every body, all parties would be pre pared in good time for the coming event, and take their pre cautionary measures accordingly. In the first place, no can didate should be permitted to offer himself, or to " enter the field," as it is called, whether invited or net, within a later period than a clear week before the commencement of the bu siness of the election ; as every thing connected with the re presentation of the country ought to be gravely and solemnly deliberated, and, as the " bringing in a new man," as it is termed, is often resorted to as a trick, by those corrupt parties who scruple at no intrigue to defeat their opponents. The period having arrived, at which the declarations of the candi dates might be lawfully made, the following might be safely allowed as the mode of doing this :—ln lieu of personal can vassing —which should be strictly prohibited, both in principal, agents, and friends, and made penal in all—the candidates should each be required to send to the registrar, the manu script of their addresses to the electors of the county or town for which they offered themselves or were invited. These addresses should be printed, collectively, in one pamphlet, under the direction of the registrar, but at the joint expense of the candidates in the proportion of the respective space oc cupied by each—to check unnecessary prolixity, and a suffi cient number of copies of such pamphlet should be struck off, to ensure the delivery, free of cost, through the post-office as the best legally organised method of perfect security, to every elector whose name and residence was entered in the registrar's books ; and this should be done, not by the candidates, but by the registrar, to ensure to every elector the certainty of seeing the address of each candidate at the same time, and forming his own calm and unbiassed judgment of the whole. How much fairer and impartial a method this would be, than the present practice of each political party doing all it can to cir culate the address of one candidate, and to tear down from the walls, and otherwise destroy and suppress the circulation of every other, it is not necessary to say ; after the lapse of a week, when every elector might be supposed to have had suffi cient time to give the due attention to the respective Claims and professions of the several candidates, these gentlemen might be permitted personally to address in succession the whole body of electors—not iii the open air, and from hustings as at present, with crowds of idle and disorderly persons for the majority of their auditory, but within the walls of some large room, appropriately seated, and with every security for the utmost order and decorum, with none but registered elec tors present (for no others can have a right to be), and then these admitted only by some regulation that should ensure the exclusion of all others. PLAN OF VOTING BY BALLOT. " At the close of such a process as this—every elector having had an opportunity of reading the written, and hearing the spoken address of each candidate, and publicly asking what questions he chose—he would be as fully prepared as he could wish to decide on the application of his vote. The registrar having a card, coataicing the name of the several candidates printed on it, in a clear and uniform manner, should then pro vide a sufficient number of these to furnish one to every elector, which, for security, should be forwarded to him through the post-office, enclosed in a printed circular, directing him to draw his pen through the names of the candidates for whom he wished to give his vote, then to put the card in a blank enve lope, seal it, and inscribe his mime, with his own hand, on the outside of such envelope, so. that it might give assurance of its coming from hint as a registered elector, and then to put the whole ;n an ordinary letter-cover, address it to the registrar, at his office, and send it, for security, through the post-office, on the following day ; as the shorter the time between the i,sue of the cards and their return, the less the chance of im proper influence. On the day appointed the letters are deli vered by the post, at the office of the registrar himself, his two assistants, and a representative of each candidate being pre-. sent, to see justice done to all. The outer seal is first broken, and the inner enclosures, with the voter's autograph signatures on each cover are arranged in pigeon holes, alphabetically, as they come out. When all were thus disposed of, the next process would be the opening of the registration-book, the calling over from it the names of the voters, according to their alphabetical entry; the comparison of the autograph signature of each person on the letter-cover with the autograph signa ture of the same person in the book, to establish identity. The rejection for future inquiry of any duplicates, or forgeries, or doubtful names, if any of either, indeed, under such a system should he likely to occur. The verification of the signatures being completed, the next step would be, the opening of the inner sealed covers, and throwing the printed cards into one box, and the written envelopes into another, which for the perfect security of secrecy might be done by youths under the check of tho parties already acting as registrar and assistants, or blindfolded, if that were deemed necessary, to prevent any one from seeing out of which particular envelope any particular card was taken. The whole being opened, the cards would have to be ass.)rted according to the names of the candidates through which the pen of the voter had been drawn ; and those for whom the greatest number of cards appeared, would of course possess the majority, and be considered duly elected. " Such a mode as this would secure, among other advan tag .s, the following very important ones:-1. It would cut off at once all the falsehood, deception, undue influence, inti midation, and flattery, which are inseparable from the personal canvass. 2. It would prevent all large and disorderly assem blages of the multitude, under party excitement, and the drunken ness , di ss i pat i on , an d r i o t, w hich generally ensue. 3. It would give to neither party the advantage of knowing the progress of the election, by the publication of the state of the poll, which is at present a source of great corruption. 4. It would make the expense insignificant to either candidates or electors ; and :the chief part of the printing and postage being paid out of the funds of the county or town for which the election was held, would make the share of each inhabitant of such district an almost invisible fraction._ 5. It would give all the advantages of the Ballot, by a security against the par ticular vote of any man being known, unless made public by the individual himself, against which, of course, no security could be taken." The Paris Journals of Monday have all been, re ceived. Their contents are of no political importance. The Sub-Prefect at Bayonne communicated to the Government the following telegraphic dispatch :-- " BAvoNNE, JAN. ?G.—Espartero was on the 19th at Lo grono. All the fords of the Ebro were occupied, and the ex pedition of Zavala stopped on the left bask." A writer in the Constitutionnel confirms the report of the receipt of a large subsidy froM Russia (6,000,000 francs in gold) by Don CARLOS. The same journal has the following paragraph relative to the subsidy which M. TRIERS recommended should b e granted to the Queen of SPAIN, in the event of a Ministerial refusal of an armed intcrvention - - The Cabinet of Madrid is to undergo another shock. The subsidy proposed by Count Mole has been decidedly nega tived in the Council of Ministers—a triumph which is attri buted to the Austrian Ambassador, who, it is said, has pro tested against in the name of his Court. This was yesterday a grand cause of joy in all the legitimist saloons." The annexed extract includes all that is of any im portance in the Journals of Wednesday : W e spoke in our Number of the 23d of alarming news from Algiers respecting the projects of Abdel Kader, to which the Cliarte and the Moniteur replied. Now, the Revieu de Paris, the weekly confidant of the Council, has an article which con tains the following passages It must be acknowledged that the intentions of Abdel Kader are becoming at least problem atical, and the Treaty of Tafna will probably be only a resting place for him as well as for us.'—Le Commerce, . FRENCH FUNDS.—Paste, JAN. 20. Five per Cents. 109 f. 55c. Four and a Half per Cents. 105 f. 10c. Four per Cents., 101 f. 60e. three per Cents., 79f. 55c. Bank Actions, 2615 f. Rente de Naples, ft3f. 60. Roman Five pe;Cents., 101%. Spanish Actives, 12% . Belgian Loan, 102%. Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 53N. Haytian Loan, Sea EXCRANGIC ON LONDON. One month, paper, --f. —c ; money, 25f. 47%c Three months, paper, 2ilf. 32 ; money, 251. 32i,ir. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 10:9. 55c. Three per Cents., 79f. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,630 f. Romans, 101 Y 4. Rente de - Naples, 08f. 75c. Spanish Actives, 20. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNa, JAN. 20 Five per Cents. 11Istalliquee Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Attgemeine &thing, Jan. 25. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) CROSBY V. THE DERBY GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. The arguments in this case had not been concluded at the time our Reporter left the Court. VICE-CHANCERY.-THIS DAY. TAYLOR V. SALMON. The Bill in this case was filed by the plaintiffs against Lord Dunally, for the specific performance of an agreement entered into by him to grant a lease of certain mines in the county of Tipperary, to the Tippe rary Mining Company, of which Mr. Salmon was stated to be the agent at the time the agreement was made. Lord Dunally did not object to grant the Lease, but was prevented doing so in consequence of a claim having been set upon his own part by Mr. Salmon. His HONOUR, in giving judgment, expressed his belief that the answer of Mr. Salmon was of a false nature, and, therefore, he must decree the specific performance as asked, granting a perpetual injunction against Mr. Salmon in the prayer of the Bill. Lord Dunally to have his costs from the plaintiffs, who were to be repaid by Mr. Salmon, and also re ceive from him their own costs. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This being the last day of Term, the COURT took motions. THORNE V. FRANCIS. Mr. KINDERSLEY Moved in this case that the next friend of the plain tiff might be restrained from prosecuting the suit. There was no one fact, in point of public interest, in th• ease. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) CRIMINAL INFORMATION. - THE QUEEN V. W►IT. Mr. Buries appeared to show cause against a rule obtained by the ATTORNMY-GENERAL, calling upon the defendant, a young gentleman of Sheffield, to phew cause why a criminal inform'ation should not be filed against him for a libellous publication reflecting upon the character of Thomas James Parker, a solicitor of Sheffield. It appeared from the statement of Counsel that the father of the defendant had married the sister of the prosecutor ; that Mr. Wait the elder and the prosecutor had formerly been in partnership, but had dissolved it ; and that some differ ence took place which put an end to all intercourse between the parties. On the death of the prosecutor's father, a friend of Mr. Wait's ap plied to Mr. Parker relative to some claim which the former fa mily had upon the property of the deceased, and a correspondence took place, in the course of which the prosecutor declined to enter into some arrangement proposed by Mr. Wait's family, on the ground that lie had experienced " insult, injustice, and the most cruel treatment at the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Wait." Immediately after that letter had been shown to the defendant, who was not quite twenty years of age, he addressed a letter to the prosecutor, in which he denounced him as " a liar and a blackguard, and that if he were not his mother's brother he (the writer) would horsewhip him in the public streets." A copy of that letter was posted up by the defendant i❑ the public news-room and at the post-office of Sheffield. Lord DENMAN regretted that the matter had not been referred to some gentleman, who would point out some mod, of coming to an ami cable arrangement. Mr. BAINES regretted also that such was not the case, and proceeded to read the affidavits which had been filed, and submitted that taking into consideration the provocation that had been received, and the ex treme youth of the party, the rule ought to be discharged. The Couar did not think that anything like adequate provocation had been given for the extreme violence of the language that had been used, and without at all entering into the merits of the case, they were of opinion that the rule for the criminal information should be made absolute. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. CHILD MuliDEIL—At ten o'clock the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, with Mr. Justice Vaughan, and Mr. Baron Boltand, took their seats on the Bench, and Elizabeth Hodges was indicted for having feloniously killed her infant child, Sarah Hodges, on the 31st of December. The prisoner was also arraigned on the Coroner's Inquisition for a similar offence. To both she pleaded Not Guilty. She appeared in a very weak state. She was sup ported by a female friend, and was accommodated with a chair during the trial. Mr. PAYNE prosecuted, and Mr. CLARKION defended. Mr. Justice VAUGHAN asked if the necessary steps had been taken to ascertain if the prisoner was in a fit state to take her trial. Mr. CLARKsON replied that inquiries had been made with that object, especially of the surgeon of the prison; and it appeared that she was was now sufficiently possessed of her faculties to take her trial. Mr. PAYNE, in stating the case for the prosecution, said the defence which would be set up was that of insanity. The Learned Counsel then called the following witnesses. Mary Ann Hervey, of No. 11, Ireland place, Blackfriars, was a nurse, and attended the prisoner during her confinement. On the 4th of De cember she was delivered of a female infant. She suffered much, and was not doing well. On the 31st of December I went to her house in Ivy_ lane, and went to her bed-room, where I saw her standing, and her husband walking about in a melancholy way. She said, "Oh God, what shall Ido ?" I asked where the child was, but could get no answer. I again asked what she had done with the child ? She replied that it was dead. I asked where it was, and what she had done with it ? She said it was in the copper. I went to the copper, and found in it the child, covered with water. At that time, and some time previously, she did not appear to be in her light mind. She repeatedly talked of the devil having troubled her. Examined by Mr. CLAItILSON.—When the prisoner left her bed after her confinement, the milk suddenly left her. In my experience, it has frequently happened that in such eases reason is affected. Mr. Ewins, father of the prisoner, said that she was at his house, with the child, on the Friday preceding the 31st December (Sunday), and she then conducted herself in a very singular manner; she had been, before her marriage, of a most kind and amiable temper; and she was very much attached to her first child, now alive. 'Louisa Bill Ivac with the prisoner on the Sunday following the birth of the child. I observed that she waited till the nurse had left the room ; and then told me she had had frightful dreams, that the devil had once appeared to her, and commanded her to kill her child. I had 1 ”bserved a great change in her for some months before her last con finement. . Mr. Hayes, surgeon, was sent for on the 31st of December to pri soner's house. I found the child wrapped up in flannel. The face was dark and livid—from which I inferred that the child had been smothered. On inquiry of the prisoner, she said she had smothered the infant with a pillow, and then put it in the copper. Her answers were not these of a rational woman. _ _ Examined by Mr. CLARKSON—About the time of confinement women are often inflicted with a species of manner peculiar to them ; and the sudden leaving of the milk after confinement frequently causes tem porary insanity. Mr. CLARKSON briefly addressed the Jury, expressing his belief that they would, under the direction of the Learned Judge, return a verdict of Not Guilty, on the ground of temporary insanity at the time of committing the act; the effect of which would be that the prisoner would be confined during her Majesty's pleasure—probably for a short period—which, tinder all the circumstances of the case, would quite satisfy the demands of justice. Mr. Justice VAUGHAN left it to the Jury to say if they considered the prisoner was not in her right mind at the time she committed the act for which she appeared at the bar. If so, they would return a verdict of Not Guilty ; and under the 39th and 40th George 111. she would be kept in safe custody until the Home Secretary was satisfied that she had recovered her reason, so that it would :be quite prudent to set her at liberty. The Learned Judge observed that the Coroner had done perfectly right in directing a v.rdict of murder to be returned on the inquest ; prima facia, all homicide was murder, till either ex.. tenuated or justified by the circumstances of the case. And had the prisoner been liberated by the Coroner, however satisfied he might have beets that she was insane, she would not have come under the protec tion of the Act in question, which required that she should be set upon her trial, and that a jury of her countrymen should be satisfied of the real state of her mind at the time she committed the act for which she had been arraigned. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, on the ground of tern. porary insanity. NEW COURT. PROSECUTIONS BY THE MINT.—The whole of the morning was occu pied in the trial of persons charged with offences against her Majesty's Mint. Of the several cases broughtbefore the Court, there was not one which possessed the slightest novelty, with the exception of a man named Edwards, who, it appeared, swallowed two half-clown pieces, in order to escape detection. In consequence of the great increase of offences of this nature, the Common-Sergeant intimated that, in case of conviction, the fullest punishment the law allowed would be awarded. BIGAMIC.—Arthur Battersby, alias Henry Napier Disney, a fashion able-looking young man, was indicted for feloniously marrying Sarah Anne Stovin, his first wife, Anne Muggleston, being alive. Mr. CLARKSON stated the case for the prosecution. The prisoner at the bar stood charged with an offence, serious in its effects upon so ciety, and which, although it sometimes bore a different aspect, for it was often accompanied by circumstances of palliation, yet always partook of the character of offence. It would be for the Court and the Jury, and not for him, to characterise the conduct of the prisoner ; for he was not desirous in an opening speech to prejudice their minds by any overcharged statement, or to wound the feelings of the unfortunate man at the bar further than was necessary. He was informed that the pri soner had moved in the rank of a gentleman, and he had been told, in deed he know from the Gallant General who sat on the Bench (General Evans) that he had distinguished himself by his gallant conduct while serving with the British Legion in Spain. In 1826 the prisoner became acquainted with some gentlemen of the army at Lea mington, by whom he was introduced to Miss Muggleston the daughter of Dr. Muggleston, of Willsmer, in Warwickshire. He was married to this lady, and about two months after left her, and as he :Mr C. )was instrusted.enlisted as a private in a dragoon regiment, vot r ia which he went out to India. In the meantime Dr. Mugglestone insti.. tuted proceedings against him on the part of his daughter in the Ecclesiastical Court, and a divorce was ohtained a manses ct thoro. he prisoner subsequently returned to this country, and in the year 1816 volunteered into the British Legion, which was then raising, and having filled the ranks of serjeant, adjutant, and cornet of the Ist Lancers, he lost an arm at St. Sebastian, and shortly after quitted the service. On his return to England, he made the ac quaintance of, and married Miss Sarah Anne Stovin, the daughter of a lieutenant in the Navy, who was then a ward in Chancery, and en. titled to a fortune of fifteen hundred pounds. The prisoner was a person who was utterly without means; and it would appear, that his only object in marrying this young lady was to obtain possession of her fortune. He was instructed too that he would be able to prove that when he married Miss Stovin he was fully aware that his first wife was alive. With respect to the defence which he presumed would be set up against the charge of bigamy, that a divorce had been obtained, he apprehended that was no defence at all. Under the old statutes, Ist James the First, a divorce Inensa a Ch or e, would have been a sufficient answer, but an Act had been sub. sequently passed, 9th George IV., which had completely altered the law in this respect, and it was now held that such a divorce did not re lease from the bonds of the marriage. In conclusion the Learned Counsel stated that such had been the effect of the conduct of the pri. goner on his unfortunate victum, that she had been in a succession of fainting fits ever since she had learned the fact of his first marriage, and it was not deemed consistent with the safety of her life that she should be produced in Court. The Rev. John Muggleston, brother of the first wife, was the first witness called for the prosecution, and was under examination when our Reporter left. - BOW - STREET.—(THIS DAY.) DIE FORCE or HUNCZR. — Joseph Anderson and William Hanford were charged by George Wadmore with stealing four pounds and a half of beef and mutton, the property of John Thomas, his master. It appeared from the evidence of 08 F division, that while on duty in Clare-court, Clare-market, last night, at ten o'clock, he observed the prisoners loitering about a butcher's shop window, and before he had time to drive them away they both snatched up a piece of meat each, and were instantly off with their plunder. He immediately went in pursuit of them, and on apprehending Hanford he threw his share away, but the other preferred the opposite course, and held the meat under his arm, denying that he was guilty. Upon inquiry it was ascertained that the prisoners had been convicted of thieving " grub" on another occasion, and were sent to enjoy the silent system, for two months, in the House of Correction. _ . . E. Jones and B. Merryon were brought up for final examination charged with stealing a small cash-box, containing a quantity of sove reigns, and a 51. note_ In addition to the former evidence, a young girl, named Eliza Dabbs, who had lived in the service of Mr. William Smith, proprietor of Hick's coffee-house, Dean-street, Soho, proved that while the latter prisoner lived with her late master, in the capacity of barman, she saw him on two different occasions take silver from the till, and apply it to his own use. Sir F. Roe told the prisoner Merryon he should be committed for trial, and the twelve sovereigns, which he had applied for through his Solicitor, were not to be given up, as a letter had been received from his father, denying that they had been a present, as was represented on the former examination. QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY ) John Williams, was charged with stealing a coat from the dwelling. house of Mr. Bateman, Westbourne Terrace, Pimlico. The prisoner made no defence, and was remanded. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 30.—Wind N.E., moderate and fog.—Arrived and; ro. ceeded for the River, the Telemachus, French, from Jersey. Came down from the River and proceeded, the Royal William, Francis, for Llanelly. Poarssrourrt, JAN. 30.—Wind E N.E., hazy.—Arrived the Amiable Victoire, Le Parl, from Cherbourg. Sailed the Prosperous, Waterford. FALMOUTH, JAN. 29.—Arrived the Tyrian, Birt, from Rio Janeiro — sailed Nov. 29 ; Ranger, from Vera Cruz—sailed on the 2d ult., and from Havannah on the 23d. DOVER, JAN. 30.—Arrived off port the Earl Gustaf, Yong, from Smyrna; Moukey, Cargill, from St. Michael's; Helen, Edie, Oporto. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 30.—Wind S.S.E., moderate.—Arrived the Scot land, from New York—sailed Dec. 24 ; City of Exeter, from Mar seilles; Flirt, Davis, from Marseilles; Margaret, steamer, from Cork; Commerce, from Dublin; City of Dublin, from Dublin. SCILLY, JAN. 29.—Arrived the Queen, Kendal, from Messina ; Liberty, Caysh, from Oporto; Emily, Turner, and Sisters, Penny. from Newfoundland ; Heiress, Randell, from Messina; Kate, Ed wards, from Constantinople. Arrived off, Law Ogilby, )(orrice, from Palermo; Christina: - from Messina; Hannah, Booth, from Palermo. The Wye, Fleet, from Cardiff; put into Scilly, after being on shore, bound to London. POOLE, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Garland, Hayward, from Bahia. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, HALF-PAST TEN O'CLOCK The letters are not as yet delivered from the Post-office, which must be owing to the bad state of the roads. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The letters are now delivered from the Post-office, as well as the list of arrivals, as follows :—French mail ; a mail from Brazil, by the Tyrian, from Bahia Nov. 2, Pernambuco Oct. 28. A mail from Vera Cruz, by the Banger, sailed Dec. 2, Havannah Deo. 23. NVe have received a Price Current from Rio Janeiro of Nov. 27. Stocks :—The news received from Bahia, above ten days ago, of a revo lution having taken place there, cwised a decline in Stock front 891 to 87 ; but the first panic being over, it recovered as far as 88, and the opinion prevailing now, after the arrival of the packet, that the revolution is not likely to be of long duration, it left off to-day buyers at 84—The Exchange has declined from 281 to 27 I/ 4 , which may be at. tributed in a great measure to the heavy remittances which latterly have been made by our Government. A steamer sailed from Rio Janeiro to Bahia with a quantity of muni tions of war, with the Count Beauressaire, Chief of Divission, to take the command of the vessels of war blockading the port of Bahia. We have received Buenos Ayres papers to the 21st of October. From the Oriental State, they mention—" It would seem from the following dispatch in the Monte Video Journals that the civil war in the Oriental Republic has again assumed an active appearance. "The President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of the army :--- " HEAD QUARTERS—MARcii, October 12, 1837.—The anarchist band again head the territory of the Republic; the leader of it has sent forth a force of 200 under the orders of Luna, who has entered Anapa. The army follows its line of march by the coast of the Sohas. On the 4th there was a skirmish in the Puntas del Cuaro, in which Ensign Gomez was killed..." The Universal of Montevideo of the 18th instant, gives the report which existed of the authorities in the Province of Rio Grande, having intimated to the anarchist chief Rivera, to evacuate the territory on the 15th instant, as also that 1000 men of the Republican party, com manded by Colonel Salvarra, preceded by the division of Canavarro, were in march towards the camp of the anarchists to compel them to that measure, but the Universal does not pledge itself for the truth of the above; it adds that the Chief of the Republic is in full march towards them. Exchange at Buenos Ayres 5f to 5 9-16ths; the highest price of Doubloons, 140 Dollars. Actual hostilities have already commenced between the advanced guard of the contending armies on the frontier of Bolivia. 250 Argen tine cavalry, under the command of General Felippe Heredia, put the Bolivians to flight at a place called Humahuaca on the 13th ult. Their baggage and a considerable quantity of arms, horses, and mules, fell into the hands of the victors. Mr. Mandeville, Minister Plenipoten tiary of her Britannic Majesty, had an audience on the 3tll inst. with his Excellency the Governor, in order to deliver to him an autograph letter from her Majesty. Up to the present hour we do not bear of any arrivals from th• United States. Two packets are now due, which are expected daily. THE FUND,. The British Funds this morning are stationary, owing to there being no arrivals from Canada; and Consols opened at the closing prices of. yesterday, 921 i for the Account, and 921 for Money. ExcheqUer . Bills, 21(1. per day, 62 64 prem. ; India Bonds, 58 60 ; Bank Stock, . 2061; India Stock, 264 265. Spanish Active, 19 i il, with Coupons ; Portuguese, 28i ; Brazil iln proved to 74k, owing to the favourable accounts by the mails. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock - . 3 per Cent, iced, 9 2%.% % ,‘ Ditto Bonds .......... :3 per Cer. t. Cons 92%U '2lSouth Sea Stock 314 per Coot. —Old knnnities .. Ditto Re-' New I per Cent ...... ..... 100% 100 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 •-•"""... New 5 per C•ent -- Exch. Bills, .£1,4100 62 61 63 •n* • Bank Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto 5OO a: 63 PO'. Jan. 5, 1860 l5 3-16% Ditto Small Oct. 10 WA) — Ditto Commercial — PM' Jan. 5, MO — Ditto Advertised - P flu ! Jan. 5 law ...... Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... -----. April 5 , 1880 — India Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1870 _a... ........... .......... —lConsols for Acconnt OW i l/i ..... ......... P RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL000`• A ustnan Bonds Ditto Account ... Ditto A ecour i t 64 ..... ...... .... --- Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds ... ........ —735(, 4% Ditto Account Ditto Account 74% Ditto New Bonds 2'314% !hien°. Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ....... ......... Ditto Account hillian Bonds .......... ..... ..... Prussian Bands ...._ Ditto Account C i:urnhian Ponds Ditto Account... ...... .... Ditto Accoub l , . .... . . ..... Columbian Bends, 184' 24% Spanish Bonds ....; liitto Account Dinish Bonds ...... Ditto Account . — Ditto Account Greek Bones — French, 5 per cent.......... —f. .--el Ditto Bonds, 1825 — —— 4 per cent. Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent.... Exchange f. — 4 ' Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account — Ditto, t per cent. l O2 . Neapolitan — Ditto Account _--....' PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 2O IT Bristol and Exeter Railway Company , ln 4 • Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company „,, 24 1% Eastern Counties Railway 3 Pi tinghton Railway Cotenant ! London and Southampton (New) Railway a 21'4 London and Croydon Railway Company N TO Midland Railway Company 25 24% British North American Bank General Steam Navig a ti on C ompany COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. Amsterdam C . F . 12 5 % tlibraitar 45 , Ditto, at sight Witterdarn °U . 12 6 Genoa eg 15 Antwerp... Hmileurg. M.B. 13 13 Venice .16 A1t0na..... Paris, .3 days' sight '2s 65 Palermo Ditto 3 Ms. 95 95 Lisbon 5% Marseilles. • Bourdeaux Frankfurt on Maine, Ex. M. 15.3 Bania 25 . Pttersbuigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Buenos Ayres I _.... 4 Berlin Vienna, effective ti 2M.10 11 Cork Trieste......ditto lO 13 PRICE OF BULLION, PER 0? Madrid 35% Portugal Gold, coin er , 14 0 Cadiz Bilboa .... B ircelona Seville 34 Silver, bars, standard 0 4 11 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. . This being settling day in the Foreign Market, the chief busineei doing is settling the accounts, the heaviest of which is in Brazil Stock. Accounts from Bahia state that 4,500 Imperialists, principally n tional guards, and about 400 regulars, 250 of whom had arrived fro. Pernambuco, had left the usurping authorities, and were expected ' conic down on the town on or before the sth, when the steamer WO expected from Rio with ammunition and arms. Great enthusiasm le° displayed on the Emperor's birth-day, the 2(.1 December, by the country people. The accounts from Pernambuco arc also very favourable. There was no idea of any commotions taking place. From Rio Janeiro the private letters state that the Savings Banks there had offered to contract with the Government for Stock to the amount of 150 contos per mont h for the next eight months, at Bi 4 ; but the Minister of Finance 1 00 not accepted the offer. The Steam Navigation Shares for the Bay of Rio had risen to 95 Pe r cent. prem., and five boats were actively employed in the Bay. In con• sequence of this intelligence Brazil Stock improved from 73i to 74k. Consols have been during the whole of the morning at 923 for the Account ; Money,', 92, little doing. Exchequer Bilk, 61 63 ; Ind ia Bonds, 59 61 ; Bank Stock, 206 % . India Stock, 265. In the Foreign Market the settling of the Account is going off wel l ' Spanish Active, 19} f with Coupons ; Portuguese, 284 I ; Dutch To'°' and-a-half "per Cents , 53. London and Brighton Shares, 81 prem. Other shares the prices 1 1,• all nominal. THREB O'CLOCA: Censels for the Account, o2a. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Omnium ..... India Stock ............... 265 Ditto I:.onds South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities -- Ex. 81174 1000' Nd. ..• 63 F__, nl Ditto 500/ 63 pi.' Ditto 5001 63 Pro' Bank Stock for Opg. India Stock for Act- ...... - Consols for Feb. 1 FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent 6 4 Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. -- Russian Bonds, 5 per cent -" Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent l9 Ditto. C0n501idated.......... - , French, 5 pez cent ... ..... . —`. -"*; Exchange French, 3 per cent ..—f. . Dutch, 2.i per cent. 5 3 .1i -.. ... Ditto, 5 per cent. ....... ...........1 02 ro SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway l7 Bristol and Exeter Railway Dublin and Kilkenny Railway.., l% Eastern Counties Railway l% Gre.t Western Railway 82% London and Brighton Railway BIA London and Blackwall Railway London and Southampton Railway 39 London and Southampton (New) ... London and Croydon Railway London and Croydon Railway (Scrip Maufthester and Birmingham Railway Northern and Eastern Railway North Midland Railway 25% South Eastern and Dover Rahway 5 No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'cl"k 13.4.nk Stocl: 206% per Cent. Red 9 -2% 3 per Cent Cons 92 3y v per Cent. 3% per Cent. Red Imo% New . .”4 per Cent WO 1 per Cent. Assented Dissented Cong Annuities to expire Jaa. 1860 l5" Oct 18.50 Jan. MO FOHEIGI Austrian, 5 per cent tSelgi an , 5 per cent...... Brazilian Bonds alienpm Ayres, 6 per c,r.t (Milian, 6 per cent :TT ;51 Colombian, 6 per cent. Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent 74 Greek Bonds, 1625, 5 per cent — 11exican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 Veruvian, 1825, 6 per cent List. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., HA F F H ALL By ROBERT SULLIVAN, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. .. , t •-•'' i 7 r - , ---,. , ..y.:l , „_, , , ,, ,t. (t4.ille c=„ialUX4 WITPS WHICH g , THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED.